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The new Netflix movie Untamed Royals makes it clear that justice always works in favor of the rich—the ones with money and power. If you’re poor and innocent, good luck getting justice. The sad truth is that you don’t stand a chance without power. In the movie, when expensive items start going missing from Santiago’s house in a wealthy neighborhood, the first person he suspects is his driver, Polo. Without a second thought, Polo is fired, even though the real culprits are likely Santiago’s own son, Xavier, and his best friend, Gerardo. Officer Rodrigo, who suspects the truth, doesn’t bother to stand up for Polo. Instead, the blame falls on the innocent staff, who couldn’t defend themselves. Now, let’s dive into the cast and characters that bring this story to life.

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Xavier, played by Juan Pablo Fuentes, is the son of Santiago and Victoria,...

“Untamed Royals” is a Netflix movie starring Juan Pablo Fuentes, Ximena Lamadrid, Fernando Cattori and Renata Manterola. It is written by Santiago Mohar Volkow, and directed by Humberto Hinojosa Ozcariz.

“Untamed Royals” unfurls in the thrilling genre to depict a vivid portrait of misguided, privileged, and morally corrupt teenagers. However, what could have mimicked a “Funny Games” (1997) style narrative morphs into a fascinating police thriller that delves deep into the repercussions of these affluent adolescents’ errant actions.

In terms of cinematographic execution, the film boasts commendable performances, striking visuals, and well-measured pacing. The technical finesse in handling all the elements intrinsic to a thriller is evident and praiseworthy.

Plot Overview Untamed Royals

A band of spoiled teenagers, in a bid to combat their ennui, engages in criminal activities that culminate in catastrophic events, affecting innocent bystanders.

Film Analysis

“Untamed Royals” straddles the line between social critique and pure thriller, gravitating more towards the latter.

The Accident is a Mexican thriller drama series written by Leonardo Padrón. The Netflix series revolves around a tragic accident that changes the lives of several families leaving them with their soul crippling guilt and resentment which leads them down the path of violence. The Accident stars Ana Claudia Talancón, Sebastian Martínez, Alberto Guerra, Eréndira Ibarra, Shaní Lozano, Silverio Palacios, Erick Elías, Erik Hayser, and Valentina Acosta. So, if you loved the thrilling story, compelling characters, and satisfying mystery in The Accident here are some similar shows you should check out next.

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Who Killed Sara? is a Mexican mystery crime thriller series created by José Ignacio Valenzuela. The Netflix series follows the story of Álex Guzmán, a man who spent 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit and now that he is out, he is determined to find who killed his...

The time has come: Luxury Swiss watchmaker Jaeger-LeCoultre has brought its light and sound extravaganza, The Golden Ratio Musical Show at 1931 Cinema, to Los Angeles.

The inaugural activation, which debuted in Shanghai, posted up at the Westfield Century City on Thursday where it will be through the weekend and open to the public on a schedule that features additional programming designed to expand the cultural conversation around design and watchmaking. The show tells the story of the Golden Ratio, “the unique mathematical formula that defines aesthetic harmony,” per the brand. It’s also a tribute to the the iconic Reverso timepiece, created in 1931.

To bring the show to life, Jaeger-LeCoultre partnered with British musician Tokio Myers, who composed the soundtrack that plays against the backdrop of a digital show projected onto a giant screen of falling water. Thursday’s launch featured a private gala dinner during which Myers performed his symphony “Timeless” accompanied by L.

Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Review — Bardo: False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) Film Review, a movie directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, written by Nicolás Giacobone and Alejandro G. Iñárritu and starring Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Luis Couturier, Andres Almeida, Clementia Guadarrama, [...]

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“There is nothing to understand, there’s a lot to feel,” declares Alejandro G. Iñárritu about his ambitious and deeply personal new film “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths.” For our recent webchat he adds, “If you want to understand, there’s nothing to understand, just shut up your mind and let yourself go, and go with the dream. When people do that, they use art to be transported. That’s how cinema started in the first place. Then narrative and storytelling was added to the equation, but it’s not necessarily the only possibility of cinema,” he explains. “This is not an autobiography. This is a fictionalized exercise, a very personal and intimate experience to get us into this labyrinthine way that our memory works,” he notes, adding that he “wanted to establish that this was a journey in the mental landscape of a character that is navigating between truth and fiction.

After two multiple Oscar winners in quick succession – Birdman and The Revenant – we’ve had to wait seven years for a feature from Alejandro G. Iñárritu. That wait ends this week, with the arrival of Bardo on Netflix. And it’s probably his most personal film to date.

To give the film its full title, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is an epic journey through the memories of journalist and filmmaker Silverio Gama (Daniel Gimenez Cacho) as he returns to his home country of Mexico to confront his own identity, his relationships with his family as well as the history and likely future of his nation. Mixing emotion and comedy and sprinkled with nostalgia, it takes on universal themes such as success, mortality and family bonds. In other words, what it means to be human in today’s world.

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Bardo follows the story of a journalist and documentary filmmaker as he finds himself on a journey to connect back with his past and his Mexican heritage.

Daniel Giménez Cacho, who plays Silverio and Ximena Lamadrid, who plays Camila, recently sat for an exclusive with uInterview founder Erik Meers to discuss what it was like working with renowned five-time Academy Award-winning director Alejandro González Iñárritu.

“Right before we began shooting, we rehearsed in a Hacienda, a hotel very secluded sort of in the middle of nowhere in Mexico,” Lamadrid revealed. “We stayed there for about to or three nights and we were rehearsing with the four of us – Griselda [Siciliani], Daniel, Íker [Sánchez Solano] and I with Alejandro doing a lot of the acting exercises, connecting, getting to know each other. It never felt intimidating. It never felt like he was this huge director and we had to sort of aspire to work with him.

“Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths” from Alejandro González Iñárritu is a stirring and profound examination of a man having an existential crisis. The word itself is a Buddhist term that means the plane between death and reincarnation. That man is played by Daniel Giménez Cacho and his Ximena Lamadrid stars as

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Bardo, directed by Alejandro González Iñárritu, documents one man’s cultural rediscovery as he leaves Los Angeles and returns to Mexico. After receiving a prestigious award for his work in journalism and documentary filmmaking, Silverio (Daniel Giménez Cacho) suddenly is compelled to re-examine his Mexican roots. Upon arrival, he contends with embarrassing memories from the past and an existential crisis.

Related: The Contenders Film: Los Angeles – Deadline’s Full Coverage

González Iñárritu started to really consider the nature of immigration and belonging when he created Carne y Arena, a virtual-reality installation that gave him the opportunity to speak to more than 500 immigrants crossing the border. “There was a very, very deep call of the nature of being an immigrant,” he said Saturday at Deadline’s The Contenders Film: Los Angeles event. “What we share in common was that nostalgia, melancholia — all the things that you lose when you leave your country.

Deadline is offering up a record number of titles in the lineup for Contenders Film: Los Angeles, which kicks off this morning live and in-person at the DGA Theater on Sunset Boulevard.

The casts and creators from 29 films hailing from 14 studios and streamers will take the stage today to discuss their buzzy awards-season projects in front of a crowd of key Academy and guild voters, as the film kudos season zooms into the fast lane.

Click here to sign up for and watch the livestream.

If you can’t attend today’s event, you can follow along via livestream, on Deadline.com, and on our social channels using the hashtag #DeadlineContenders.

As for the day, Carey Mulligan, Jennifer Connelly, Jessica Chastain, Guillermo del Toro and Janelle Monáe are just a small handful of the artists that’ll have visited the Contenders stage before we’ve even hit the lunch break.

Few films released in 2022 make a bolder visual statement than “Bardo (or False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths).” Alejandro González Iñárritu’s sprawling film about an acclaimed documentarian returning to his hometown in Mexico to receive an award has captivated audiences with its unapologetically surreal images since premiering at the Venice International Film Festival in September.

It begins with a newborn baby asking to be inserted back into his mother’s womb, and only gets crazier from there, as Iñárritu attempts to make sense of life and art while looking for meaning in a world that can seem devoid of it.

To discuss bringing such a singular artistic vision to life, the film’s stars Daniel Giménez Cacho and Ximena Lamadrid, production designer Eugenio Caballero, and supervising sound editor and sound designer Martín Hernandez joined IndieWire’s Eric Kohn for a panel at IndieWire’s Consider This FYC Brunch.

Exclusive: Gravitas Ventures has acquired U.S. rights to actor Avan Jogia’s first feature Door Mouse from Highland Film Group. The thriller starring Hayley Law (Riverdale), Keith Powers (The Tomorrow War), Famke Janssen (Long Slow Exhale), Donal Logue (Gotham) and Jogia (Resident Evil: Welcome to Raccoon City) is slated for release in theaters and on demand on January 13.

Pic follows Mouse (Law), an irreverent dancer at a dead-end burlesque club run by Mama (Janssen). When Mouse’s only friends and fellow club dancers go missing under mysterious circumstances, nobody at the club seems too concerned about them, and the police couldn’t care less. Mouse and her constant sidekick Ugly (Powers) quickly realize that it’s up to them to dig up all the dirt and start the hunt for the culprits.

Jogia directed from his script, with Kyle Mann producing for Independent Edge, along with Jason Ross Jallet from Cause and Effect Entertainment.

Daniel Giménez Cacho as Silverio in Bardo: False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths. Photo: Netflix They say write what you know, and filmmakers have been mining their personal lives for inspiration since the start of the art form. Alejandro G. Iñárritu is the latest to craft a thinly fictionalized...

Indie distributor Utopia, currently in theaters with Holy Spider, anticipates music documentary Meet Me In The Bathroom will be its biggest weekend opening to date.

It’s holding onto numbers for Sunday from one-night premieres this past week in LA at the Fonda and in NY at Webster Hall with live performances by The Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Wah Together and special guests Tim Heidecker and Jim Jarmusch. This weekend, the event film by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, co-produced by Vice, Xtr and Pulse Films, opens at the IFC Center and Los Feliz with multiple shows sold out. Films and presales speak “to the growing 2000s nostalgia, but also the iconic impact of the bands featured in the film and their continued artistry and output,” said marketing chief Kyle Greenberg.

This early 2000s NYC indie rock scene immersion acquired out of Sundance expands to 150 screens Nov. 8 for one-night engagements...

The Newport Beach Film Festival has announced its 2022 award winners, including an Audience Award for “The Banshees of Inisherin” and Festival Awards for “Devotion” and “The Lost King.”

In its 23rd year, the festival showcased over 350 films from around the world, as well as hosted red carpet premieres, nightly special events, live music performances and conversations with filmmakers. This year’s festival also featured the 2022 Festival Honors program celebrating the Nbff honorees and Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch, along with Nbff’s selection of International Spotlights, Centerpiece screenings, Special Programs and curated shorts programs.

The 2022 Festival honorees included Ron Howard for Variety’s Legend and Groundbreaker Awards; Jonathan Majors, Patton Oswalt, Keke Palmer and Aubrey Plaza for Artist of Distinctions Awards; Colson Baker and Anna Diop for Spotlight Awards; Cooper Raiff for the Maverick Award; and Aimee Carrero for the Breakout Performance Award.

Eddie Redmayne received the Icon Award, while...

“I haven’t done a film in seven years. And most of the films I have done with my open eyes, observing the exterior world and then trying to make sense of it,” said “Bardo” director Alejandro G. Iñárritu at a special screening and Q&a for his film in New York City on October 25, where he was joined by his co-screenwriter Nicolás Giacobone and actors Daniel Giménez Cacho, Ximena Lamadrid, and Íker Solano. He explained that “Bardo” was different because “I made this film with my eyes closed, meaning that the journey was inward.”

“Bardo” tells the story of journalist and documentarian Silverio Gacho (played by Cacho), who goes on an inner journey to reconcile his past and present, his culture and identity, and his failures and successes as he prepares to accept a prestigious journalism award. It’s a deeply personal film for Iñárritu but not strictly autobiographical.

For the first time since 2015's "The Revenant," Alejandro González Iñárritu is back behind the camera. The Academy Award-winning filmmaker, who's taken home directing trophies for both the Leonardo DiCaprio survival thriller and 2014's trippy, Michael Keaton-led dark comedy "Birdman," returns with the Netflix film "Bardo." The movie's full title is actually "Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths," and Iñárritu serves as not just director of the project, but also writer, producer, and editor.

Now, "Bardo" has a new trailer, and the film that premiered at Venice looks like a surreal, gorgeous, and potentially somewhat inscrutable work of art. This stunning but disorienting trailer doesn't exactly explain what's going on in this movie, but the film's official synopsis makes its plot a little more explicit. Apparently, the film tells the story of "Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles." After being named...

"We think we're from several places when in fact… we're from nowhere." Who are we, where are we, why are we? Some of the questions Iñárritu tries to explore in this. Netflix has debuted a second official trailer for the film by Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu titled Bardo. This premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival and also stopped by London (read our review), opening in select theaters first early next month. The films follows a renowned Mexican journalist & documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his own identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories. It's essentially an autobiographical film about Iñárritu's life and his many questions about everything - his connection to Mexico and his family and so much more. Shot on gorgeous 65mm by Academy Award-nominee Darius Khondji. Iñárritu's Bardo stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as "Silverio", with Griselda Siciliani,...

Oscar-winning director Ron Howard was honored with the Variety Legend and Groundbreaker Award as part of the Newport Beach Film Festival Honors, a star-studded celebration of artists who’ve made a “significant impact” on entertainment this year.

Held at the Balboa Bay Resort in Newport Beach, Calif., on Oct. 16, Howard was joined onstage at the swanky brunch by fellow awardees Jonathan Majors, Patton Oswalt, Keke Palmer, Aubrey Plaza, Colson Baker, Anna Diop, Cooper Raiff and Aimee Carrero.

The event also feted Variety’s 10 Actors to Watch honorees — Kerry Condon, Stephanie Hsu, Ximena Lamadrid, Christina Jackson, Thuso Mbedu, Zen McGrath, Amber Midthunder, Sam Nivola, Jeremy Pope and Joseph Quinn — who all gathered for a special conversation, where they dished on the ups and downs of the business so far and where they want to pivot their careers from here.

Alejandro G. Iñárritu returns to the the capital for the premiere of his latest film Bardo at the 2022 London Film Festival. The film, written and directed by Iñárritu and whose full title is Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as Silverio Gama, Ximena Lamadrid and Íker Sánchez Solano.

The film is in select UK cinemas in November and on Netflix on December 16. Colin Hart, Ethan Hart and Scott Davis were on the red carpet, here are their interviews.

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Set against the intimate and moving journey of Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, is compelled to return to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit. The folly of his memories and fears has decided to pierce through the present,...

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Mexico has selected Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths as its official contender for the 2023 Academy Awards in the best international feature category.

The epic comedy, which also marks Iñárritu’s first Mexican feature since his 2000 breakout Amores Perros, will be released in theaters starting on Oct. 27, before dropping on Netflix on Dec. 16.

Daniel Giménez Cacho plays Silverio Gama, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles, who, after being named the recipient of a prestigious international award, returns to his native country. But he’s unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit sparked by family relationships, questions of cultural identity and changes to the country of his birth.

Iñárritu is no stranger at the Academy Awards, as the Mexican filmmaker already won the best director Oscar for Birdman...

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths Trailer — Alejandro G. Iñárritu‘s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths (2022) movie trailer has been released by Netflix. The Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths trailer stars Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, and Iker Solano. Crew Alejandro G. Iñárritu [...]

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And here we go… Netflix has revealed the first official trailer for the highly anticipated, already controversial new film from Oscar-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro G. Iñárritu titled Bardo. This premiered at the 2022 Venice Film Festival earlier this month to mixed reviews, and opens in theaters first for a month before landing on Netflix for streaming. The films follows a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his own identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories. It's essentially an autobiographical film about Iñárritu's life and his many questions about everything - his connection to Mexico and his family and so much more. Shot on gorgeous 65mm by Academy Award-nominee Darius Khondji. The film marks Iñárritu's first film to be shot in Mexico since 2000's international sensation Amores Perros. Bardo stars Daniel Giménez Cacho as "Silverio", with Griselda Siciliani,...

Set to the tune of the Beatles classic “I Am the Walrus,” a new trailer for Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Bardo — full title: Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths — dropped today, giving viewers a taste of what Venice festgoers experienced this month.

The film received six minutes of applause in its three-hour world premiere on September 2 at the Venice Film Festival. The director has cut 22 minutes of the film since then, bringing the runtime to about 2½ hours.

Venice Review: Alejandro G Iñárritu’s ‘Bardo’

Written by Iñárritu and Nicolás Giacobone, Bardo is billed as a nostalgic comedy set against an epic personal journey. It chronicles the story of a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker who returns home and works through an existential crisis as he grapples with his identity, familial relationships, the folly of his memories as well as the past of his country, all the while...

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The American Film Institute’s Los Angeles-based film festival AFI Fest has revealed this year’s crop of red carpet galas including films from Alejandro González Iñárritu, Guillermo del Toro, Maria Schrader and Florian Zeller.

As previously announced, AFI Fest will open with the world premiere of Apple’s Selena Gomez: My Mind and Me on Nov. 2 and close four days later with the U.S. premiere of Universal Pictures’ and Amblin Entertainment’s The Fabelmans from Steven Spielberg.

Iñárritu’s Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, which will screen Nov. 3, centers on Silverio, a renowned Mexican journalist and documentary filmmaker living in Los Angeles who returns to his native country, unaware that this simple trip will push him to an existential limit. Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid and Iker Solano star in the film.

On Nov. 4, notable journalist,...

The Film Circuit begins with Telluride, a small but perfect film festival in the mountains of Colorado as simultaneously Venice unfurls the films that will soon be released in the wonderful arthouse cinemas of Europe, followed closely by Toronto whose films foretell the coming year’s Oscars nominees. It is a very exciting time to be on the festival circuit.

And simultaneously with these great screenings are sidebars, panel discussions, workshops, master classes and all around great networking for filmmakers around the world.

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Il Signore Delle Formiche

Director Gianni Amelio

Main Cast Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco / Italy / 134’

The Whale

Director Darren Aronofsky

Main Cast Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins / USA / 117’

White Noise

Director Noah Baumbach

Main Cast Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger / USA / 136’

L’IMMENSITÀ

Director Emanuele Crialese

Main Cast Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni / Italy, France / 97’

Saint Omer

Director Alice Diop

Main Cast Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit / France / 123’

Blonde

Director Andrew Dominik

Main Cast Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher / USA / 166’

TÁR

Director Todd Field

Main Cast Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong / USA / 158’

Love Life

Director Kôji Fukada

Main Cast Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada / Japan, France / 123’

Bardo, Falsa CRÓNICA De Unas Cuantas Verdades

Director Alejandro G. Iñárritu

Main Cast Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio / Mexico / 174’

Athena

Director Romain Gavras

Main Cast Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti / France / 97’

Bones And All

Director Luca Guadagnino

Main Cast Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz / USA / 130’

The Eternal Daughter

Director Joanna Hogg

Main Cast Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies / UK, USA / 96’

Shab, Dakheli, Divar (Beyond The Wall)

Director Vahid Jalilvand

Main Cast Navid Mohammadzadeh, Diana Habibi, Amir Aghaee / Iran / 126’

The Banshees Of Inisherin

Director Martin McDonagh

Main Cast Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan / Ireland, UK, USA / 109’

Argentina, 1985

Director Santiago Mitre

Main Cast Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski / Argentina, USA / 140’

Chiara

Director Susanna Nicchiarelli

Main Cast Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106’

Monica

Director Andrea Pallaoro

Main Cast Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close / USA, Italy / 113’

Khers Nist (No Bears)

Director Jafar Panahi

Main Cast Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjeei, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari / Iran / 107’

All The Beauty And The Bloodshed

Director Laura Poitras

USA / 117’

Un Couple

Director Frederick Wiseman

Main Cast Nathalie Boutefeu / France, USA / 64’

The Son

Director Florian Zeller

Main Cast Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie / UK / 124’

Les Miens

Director Roschdy Zem

Main Cast Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Meriem Serbah, Maïwenn, Rachid Bouchareb, Abel Jafrei, Nina Zem / France / 85’

Les Enfants Des Autres

Director Rebecca Zlotowski

Main Cast Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira / France / 104’

Toronto is in spite of itself in a civilized sort of way in competition for the premieres with Venice, though the sequential festivals are serving different constituencies. Still, The Whale, for example is premiering in Venice and then traveling to TIFF.

TIFF Gala Presentations:

The Whale directed by Darren Aronofsky, produced and to be distributed in U.S. and actng as international sales agent A24.

TIFF says: “Brendan Fraser gives a career-defining performance in Darren Aronofsky’s arrestingly intimate drama about a reclusive English professor struggling with personal relationships and self-acceptance, adapted from the stage play by Samuel D. Hunter.”

Alice, Darling by Mary Nighy

Also playing are Alice, Darling (Mary Nighy) in which Anna Kendrick captures the anxious psychology of a woman in an abusive relationship as her friends try to reconnect with her while on a cottage getaway.

Black Ice(Hubert Davis) about Black hockey players facing systemic racism in the sport.

The Greatest Beer Run Ever (Peter Farrelly) about man’s story of leaving New York in 1967 to bring beer to his childhood buddies in the Army while they are fighting in Vietnam. An Apple TV+ production.

Butcher’s Crossing (Gabe Polsky) is a frontier epic about an Ivy League drop-out as he travels to the Colorado wilderness, where he joins a team of buffalo hunters on a journey that puts his life and sanity at risk. Based on the highly acclaimed novel by John Williams. Isa Altitude

The Hummingbird (Francesca Archibugi)Hunt (Jung-jae Lee)A Jazzman’s Blues (Tyler Perry)Kacchey Limbu (Shubham Yogi)Moving On (Paul Weitz)Paris Memories (Alice Winocour)Prisoner’s Daughter (Catherine Hardwicke)Raymond & Ray (Rodrigo García)Roost (Amy Redford)Sidney (Reginald Hudlin)The Son (Florian Zeller)The Swimmers (Sally El Hosaini)What’s Love Got to Do With It? (Shekhar Kapur)The Woman King(Gina Prince-Bythewood)

Special PRESENTATIONSAllelujah (Sir Richard Eyre)All Quiet on the Western Front (Edward Berger)The Banshees Of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)Blueback (Robert Connolly)The Blue Caftan (Maryam Touzani)Broker (Hirokazu Kore-eda)Brother (Clement Virgo)Bros (Nicholas Stoller)Catherine Called Birdy (Lena Dunham)Causeway (Lila Neugebauer)Chevalier (Stephen Williams)Corsage (Marie Kreutzer)Decision to Leave (Park Chan-wook)Devotion (Jd Dillard)Driving (Madeleine Christian Carion)El Suplente (Diego Lerman)Empire of Light...

Variety has selected its 10 Actors to Watch for 2022, an honor that dates back to 1998.

Past honorees include many future Oscar winners and nominees including Mahershala Ali, Timothée Chalamet, Viola Davis, Adam Driver, Brie Larson and Lupita Nyong’o.

This year’s honorees will be feted in the Oct. 12 issue of Variety and at the Newport Beach Film Festival Honors, a brunch reception held on Oct. 16 that also celebrates some of the best and brightest in the entertainment world. The event will be held in conjunction with Visit Newport Beach and the Newport Beach Film Festival.

“With a significant amount of guild and Academy voters attending, the Newport Beach Film Festival Honors event has become a must-stop for the awards campaign season,” says Gregg Schwenk, CEO of the Newport Beach Film Festival. “The annual celebration hosts industry legends side-by-side with rising stars from Variety‘s 10 Actors to Watch.”

Adds Steven Gaydos, senior...

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Alejandro González Iñárritu’s first film set and shot in his native Mexico since he turned heads more than two decades ago with Amores Perros is as long and windy as its title. “It’s pretentious and pointlessly oneiric,” scoffs a fellow Mexican who has found success in crass commercialism rather than art and truth, dismissing the semi-autobiographical protagonist’s work. Iñárritu seems to be cheekily preempting his critics. However accurate you find that assessment, the epic existential comedy, Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths, is also a work of exacting craftsmanship, shifting with beguiling fluidity between dream and reality with ravishing visuals, shot on 65mm by the great cinematographer Darius Khondji.

At three overstuffed hours, the Netflix feature is a lot of movie. While there’s pleasure in surrendering to its languid rhythms and sinuous narrative detours — I was never...

Awards season is officially upon us when the Telluride festival lineup is announced the traditional day before the festival begins. It's a docu heavy lineup this year with notable big films from all the distribs. Without further ado, here is the program. The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the Show: • Armageddon Time (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway • Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-u.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano • Bobi Wine, Ghetto President (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-u.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi • Bones And All (d. Luca Guadagnino,...

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The 49th annual Telluride Film Festival will host the world premiere screenings of Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” and Sebastian Lelio’s “The Wonder” – as well as North American premieres of Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu’s “Bardo,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Bones and All,” Todd Field’s “Tar,” James Gray’s “Armageddon Time,” and Hirokazu Kore-eda’s “Broker” among other top fall titles.

In keeping with the Telluride Film Festival’s famously late-breaking announcement process, the 2022 lineup was revealed on Thursday morning, just one day before the prestigious festival kicks off.

Due to the nuances of how the Toronto International Film Festival positioned some of its debuts as well as the roster of features debuting at the Venice Film Festival this week, industry observers had long expected many of the 2022 titles to screen in the Colorado town. But that doesn’t make the Telluride list any less impressive in its variety.

As customary, Telluride Film Festival has unveiled its lineup on the eve of its kickoff. For its 49th edition, taking place from September 2-5, the festival features new work by James Gray, Luca Guadagnino, Alejandro González Iñárritu, Hlynur Pálmason, Todd Field, the Dardennes, Sarah Polley, Mia Hansen-Løve, Werner Herzog, and more, as well as a robust section of classics and filmmaker-related docs.

The 49th Telluride Film Festival is proud to present the following new feature films to play in its main program, the Show:

• Armageddon Time (d. James Gray, U.S., 2022) In person: James Gray, Jeremy Strong, Anne Hathaway

• Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (d. Alejandro González Iñárritu, Mexico-u.S., 2022) In person: Alejandro González Iñárritu, Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Íker Sánchez Solano

• Bobi Wine, Ghetto President (d. Christopher Sharp and Moses Bwayo, Uganda-u.K., 2022) In person: Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo, Bobi Wine, Barbie Kyagulanyi

• Bones And All (d.

Telluride Film Festival’s official 2022 lineup has been announced, revealing world premieres of Sam Mendes’ “Empire of Light,” Sarah Polley’s “Women Talking,” Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre’s “Lady Chatterley’s Lover” and Sebastián Lelio’s “The Wonder.”

In its 49th year, the festival will pay tribute to two-time Oscar-winner Cate Blanchett, whose new film “TÁR,” from director Todd Field, will debut stateside after premiering at the Venice Film Festival.

In addition, the festival will also tribute Academy Award nominee Polley (adapted screenplay for 2006’s “Away from Her”) and acclaimed documentarian Marc Cousins, who has two films dropping at the fest. One is “My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock,” which is based on a fictional monologue between Cousins and the master of suspense. The other is “The March on Rome,” depicting the ascent of fascism in Europe during the 1930s.

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Alejandro González Iñárritu is having a homecoming of many sorts.

The Oscar-winning director returned to his home nation of Mexico to film upcoming feature “Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths,” after leaving for Los Angeles exactly 20 years ago. The Netflix film premiered at the Venice Film Festival and will play in movie theaters in Mexico starting October 27 before debuting in North American theaters November 4. Netflix will release the title for streaming December 16.

The special theatrical run in both nations “is something I really appreciate,” Iñárritu said during a Venice Film Festival press conference (via Deadline). “Not only because I was supported and left totally free but [Netflix] has been extremely generous in allowing people to experience this movie in a theater. This is something especially important for me and is an exceptional gesture from Netflix to me. Because I think this is a movie that belongs to this type of experience.

Alejandro González Iñárritu made a spirited appearance at the Venice Film Festival Thursday where he dismissed fears that audiences will be unable to correctly experience his latest film Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths when it is released on Netflix later this year.

“My generation has seen movies by great authors and when I was studying cinema, besides exhibitions and festivals, Bergman, Bunuel, Fellini, I saw all their movies on TV with terrible quality and VHS,” Iñárritu said when asked about his film streaming.

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“If I had to go to the toilet I stopped the movie. So we are all forced to stop the screenings. But what remains is our ideas. A movie is a movie. It is just a means. A cathedral for cinema. It’s a place where children are born.”

The director continued to say that “you cannot go against the...

Netflix has recently announced the newest film from renowned director Alejandro G. Iñárritu. This will be the five-time Academy Award winner’s first film since The Revenant. The film, titled Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths features a cast including Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, and Iker Solano.

Bardo, False Chronicle of a Handful of Truths follows the life and career of Silverio Gama, an esteemed journalist and filmmaker who currently resides in Los Angeles. Silverio had just recently won a prestigious international award and has felt the need to return home to Mexico. However, his trip back will be a journey in more ways than one. As he is haunted by his fears and mistakes of the past, these memories start to take a toll on him and push him to his existential limit.

In a time of deep and intense self-reflection, Silverio struggles with...

Netflix has released a new trailer for the second season of the Mexican thriller, Who Killed Sara? set to arrive on the streaming service on May 19th.

The series is centered around Alex Guzman (Manolo Cardona), who is determined to find out who killed his sister, Sara (Ximena Lamadrid), after spending 18 years in prison for a crime he didn’t commit. The primary target of Alex’s ire is the Lazcano family, although solving the mystery and getting revenge comes with the risk uncovering even more damning secrets.

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HBO Max released the trailer for the upcoming comedy series “That Damn Michael Che,” which premieres on May 6.

Each installment of the “Saturday Night Live” star’s 10-episode series illustrates what it feels like to experience everyday situations from his own perspective, including racial profiling, unemployment and falling in love.

Fellow “SNL” cast members Cecily Strong, Heidi Gardner, Colin Quinn, Ellen Cleghorne and Colin Jost lend their talents to the series along with guest stars Omari Hardwick, Geoffrey Owens, Godfrey, Billy Porter and Method Man.

Che serves as an executive producer alongside Lorne Michaels, Erin Doyle and Oz Rodriguez.

Also in today’s TV news roundup:

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Apple TV Plus revealed that the first three episodes of the upcoming drama-comedy series “Physical” will premiere on June 18. The final seven episodes of the season will be released weekly every Friday. Created by Annie Weisman, the series is set in the idyllic...

The series finale of Netflix's Who Killed Sara? left us with more questions than it did answers, especially after that incredibly creepy cliffhanger. Whose body did Alex dig up in his backyard? Is Sara still alive? And if she isn't, who killed her?! Ahead of the show's season two premiere on May 19, Popsugar hopped on a Zoom call with Manolo Cardona himself to discuss what the cast has in store for us next, and he assured me it's going to be "explosive, unique, and amazing."

According to Cardona, season two is going to be "bigger" and "better" than season one and packed with more action and suspense. "Sometimes it's hard to do a second one better than the first, but I think in this case, the second season of Who Killed Sara? is better. The first one, people liked it, but I think they're going to love the second season.

Just days after the season 1 premiere, Netflix has confirmed a season 2 renewal of Spanish mystery drama series Who Killed Sara? It’s slated to premiere May 19 on the streaming service.

Matías Novoa, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Antonio de la Vega join the cast of the series which stars Manolo Cardona, Carolina Miranda, Ginés García Millán, Claudia Ramírez, Eugenio Siller and Alejandro Nones.

In Who Killed Sara?, after 18 years of unjust imprisonment, Alex Guzmán (Cardona) is released from prison with the perfect plan to discover who killed his sister Sara (Ximena Lamadrid) and why the Lazcano family blamed him for the crime. What he doesn’t imagine is that the search for evidence will confront him with a much more dangerous detour than imagined: he will fall in love against his better judgement with Elisa (Miranda), the daughter of his main suspect, and, at the same time, will be horrified to...

“Who Killed Sara?” has been renewed for Season 2 at Netflix, with the new season of the drama set to premiere on May 19.

The 10-episode first season of the Spanish-language series launched March 24 on the streaming service. Per Netflix’s own daily “Top 10” list, “Who Killed Sara?” was the No. 2 title in the U.S. on Monday.

Here’s the official description for the first season of “Who Killed Sara?”: “Alex (Manolo Cardona), a man convicted of a crime he did not commit, is released after 18 years behind bars. Upon leaving, he only wants revenge on Rodolfo Lazcano (Alejandro Nones), the person responsible for the death for which he was sentenced. Things get complicated when Alex starts a sentimental relationship with Elisa (Carolina Miranda), the Lazcano’s youngest daughter, and when he discovers that Rodolfo is innocent and that someone else, who has skillfully kept in the shadows, was the true cause of his disgrace.

Just days after “Who Killed Sara?” premiered on Netflix, the streamer announced the show is officially renewed and the second season will launch May 19.

Additionally, Matías Novoa, Daniel Giménez Cacho and Antonio de la Vega have joined the cast for the second season.

“Who Killed Sara?” follows Alex Guzmán (Manolo Cardona), who, after 18 years of incarceration, finally sets out to get revenge on the family he feels is responsible for the death of his sister, the titular Sara (Ximena Lamadrid). Through present-day storytelling and flashbacks to the time around the teenager’s death, more and more secrets of the Lazcano family get uncovered, but Alex finds himself more emotionally involved than he perhaps originally thought he would be, especially as he gets romantically involved with Elisa Lazcano (Carolina Miranda).

While Alex and the Lazcano children got some answers as to the patriarch’s twisted nature and criminal ways (and the...

In today’s TV news roundup, Netflix released trailers for its upcoming series “Shadow and Bone,” and “Who Killed Sara?,” and ABC released an extended first look at Topher Grace’s upcoming sitcom “Home Economics.”

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HBO announced that “Q: Into the Storm,” a six-part docuseries that explores the origins of QAnon, will debut with two back-to-back episodes on March 21 at 9 p.m. Episodes will also be available to stream on HBO Max. The series will examine the evolution of QAnon in real-time and reveal how the anonymous figure known only as “Q” uses conspiracy theories and information warfare to game the internet, hijack politics, and manipulate people’s thinking. Additionally, “Q: Into the Storm” will examine QAnon’s influence on American culture and question the consequences of unfettered free speech permeating the darkest corners of the internet. HBO did not release information on from whom the docuseries comes, but...